Method for producing caoutchouc particles

US6723774B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Norbert Güntherberg · Speyer, DE
• Bernhard Czauderna · Hirschberg, DE
• Michael Breulmann · Mannheim, DE
• Sabine Oepen · Ellerstadt, DE
• Wil Duijzings · Born, NL
• Norbert Niessner · Friedelsheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 10, 2002
• Grant date: Apr 20, 2004
• Expiry date: Oct 1, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S525/902
• WIPO field: Macromolecular chemistry, polymers
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for producing caoutchouc particles (K) by means of emulsion polymerisation in the presence of an emulsifier and a polymerisation initiator. Said particles contain A) 80 to 100 wt. % of one or more conjugated diene monomers (A) in relation to (K) and B) 0 to 20 wt. % of one or more monoethylenically unsaturated comonomers (B) in relation to (K) in the polymerised form. The inventive method is characterised in that 1) a mixture (M1) containing water and an emulsifier is provided, 2) a mixture (M2) containing one or more monomers in the monomer or polymerised form selected from styrole, &agr;-methylstyrole, butadiene, n-butylacrylate, MMA and acrylnitrile and optionally comonomers is added, 3) polymerisation of the obtained mixture starts in the presence of a polymerisation initiator at temperature of 5 to 95° C., 4) a mixture (M3) containing 0 to 100 wt. % of the comonomers (B) in relation to (B) and 0 to 25 wt. % of the diene monomers (A) in relation to (A) is added, 5) a mixture (M4) containing the (remaining) diene monomers (A) and the (remaining) comonomers (B) is proportioned and polymerised and 6) polymerisation is terminated when there is …